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An imperative to cure : principles and practice of Qʼeqchiʼ Maya medicine in Belize / James B. Waldram.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldram, James B. (James Burgess), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kekchi Indians--Medicine.
- Kekchi Indians.
- Kekchi Indians--Health and hygiene.
- Traditional medicine--Belize.
- Traditional medicine.
- Belize.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing". Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q'eqchi' cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q'eqchi practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways--forces with which Q'eqchi practitioners must engage to cure their patients.
- Contents:
- Empiricism, materialism, and indigenous medicine
- Maya medicine, medical ethnography, and the research context
- General principles of Qʼeqchiʼ medicine
- Sickness and nosology
- The diagnostic process
- The clinical context of treatment
- Principle and practice in Qʼeqchiʼ medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Waldram, James B. (James Burgess). An imperative to cure
- ISBN:
- 9780826361745
- 0826361749
- Publisher Number:
- 40030154618
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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